I have a highly customized W2K build. All functions are initiated by booting off of a floppy. I start it by using gdisk to prep the servers hard drive...reboot. I then boot either to the network or I load DOS mode CD drivers...at the end of this step, I have a Z drive mapped to the root of my build share. I then launch Windows 3.1 and a 16Bit applet that has all company/build specific prompts. Once completed, the builder click the start button and a highly customized unattend build begins.
 
What I would like to replace in this process is the floppy for the CD based version of my build. The whole reason I use a floppy is because once the blue screen copy begins, the builder can pop out the floppy and walk away...coming back to a built server.
 
I can easily create a standard bootable CD. The problem is that the builder has to babysit the build process up until the completing of the blue screen copy so they can remove the CD so to allow the completion of the build.
 
Now to the question: How the heck does Microsoft create a bootable CD that prompts to boot from the CD with a default answer of lack of input?????????
 
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks.
 
Jon